Bottle-stopper.



I s. RUSSELL.

BOTTLE STOPPBR.

APPLICATION PILED MAY 13, 1911.

1,028,907, Patented June 11, 1912.

FRANK RUSSELL, OF ADEIAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPER. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application led May 13,11911. Serial No. 626,969.

To all lwhom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK RUSSELL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, resid-ing at 89 King William street, Adelaide, in the State of South Australia, in the Commonwealth of Australia, agent, have invented certain new and useful Improvements" in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in bottle-Stoppers for jars bottles and cognate receptacles and has for its objects to provide an improved means whereby for the repeated and intermittent use of a stop' pered receptacle in the withdrawal of contents the cork or stopper may readily be withdrawn without the use of extraneous means suchv as corkscrews and'when stopV pered the receptacle be eiiiciently closed.

I accomplish my obj ect by applying a length or band of fibrous material to and through grooves or channels within the cork or stopper in the form of an embedded loop at the sides and across the base in such a manner that a pull upon an externally projecting end or loop will effect the withdrawal of the cork o-r stopper from the receptacle and the compression of the cork due to the forcing of the same into the neck of the receptacle forms a closure which prevents leakage or evaporation of the contents when the ref ceptacle is stoppered. f

For the length or band of fibrous material I prefer to use string but may employ other textile substance which by any convenient means is fully or partially embedded into or passed through the cork or stopper after the style of a loop vat any desired positioning.

The cork or stopper is suspended upon the length of material and by pulling upon the projecting ends after it is applied to the receptacle may readily be withdrawn for intermittent repeated use.

In order that my invention may be the better understood reference may be made to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which the various illustrations represent alterna tive modes of applying the material to the stopper viz Figure l is a side elevation showing the position of the material. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. l showing grooves with the material removed. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 2 with the material inserted. 5 is a section of an Vtom of a cork. F ig. 9.

valternative arrangement with the material l inserted through the body of a cork. Fig. 6 1s a sectional plan of Fig. 5 immediately above the material. Fig.` 7 is aside view of a cork with the material forming a double Patented June11, 1912.

loop. Fig. 8 is a plan of Fig. 7 Fig. 9 is a section of a cork showing the material passed over and through and under the cork and from thence through channels at the sides. Fig. l0 is a plan of the top of the cork of Fig. 9. Fig. 1l is a plan of the bot- Fig. l2 is a section of a cork in whichthe bottom edges are deeply grooved and afloop knot is arranged underneath. Fig. 13 is a plan of the whole of the corlk showing holes for threading the materia I y'In these several figures a represents a cork f or stopper, the embedded material and o the grooves or channels. The length or band of material is fully or partially embedded into and through the cork or stopper and in stoppering the receptacle, the compression of the cork and the material due to the cork being forced into the neck of the bottle effects the complete closure of the grooves and holes in the cork, so as to prevent the escape of liquid therethrough.

The material is preferably fitted into grooves or channels cut externally down either side and across the base of the cork or stopper but maybe threaded through the body from the Vtop or either side o-r passed through holes which have been previously pierced or threaded through the body and held in grooves or channels cut at the sides.

By my invention the cork or stopper is suspended upon the material before it is applied to the receptacle and in stoppering` the material under the compression caused by the cork being forced into the neck of the receptacle, becomes integrally embedded in the form of a loop or may be entwined to form a band or grip for the fng'ersvin withdrawing the cork or stopper from thereceptacle.- 'Ihe capsule Ior head of vthe cork when first applied tothe receptacle may be coated with wax endif it beydesired the. lengths of material may be duplicated'v to form a dual s et of rings drawal. ,j

In practice it isfound that by means of or loops for withthe applied material thecork or stopper may ics repeatedly be withdrawn from stoppered receptacles andinterinittently stoppered with the fingers without requiring extraneous means such as eorkscrews, leakage or evaporation of the contents being prevented owing to the compressionV of the cork by the neck of the receptacle.

Having fully described my invention,

what I desire to claim, and secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bottle-stopper, comprising in combination a stopper, a plurality of longitudinally extending holes in said stopper, a plurality of longitudinal grooves formed in the sides of said stopper, passages connecting said holes with said grooves and a length of fibrous material passing through said holes, passages and grooves and being formed on the outer side of the cork into a loop by means of which the withdrawal of the cork may be eiiected.

2. A bottle-stopper, comprising in combination a stopper, two longitudinally extending holes in said stopper, two longitudinal grooves formed in the sides of said stopper, two passages formed in the inner end of the cork connecting said holes with said grooves and a length of fibrous material, the center portion of said material extending across the top of said cork between said holes and the end portions being passed through said holes, end passages and side grooves and being joined together on the outer side of the V FRANK RUSSELL.

Vitnesses DAVID JAMES SHORT, JAS. S. FINN,

CHARLES STANLEY BURGESS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained `for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.V Washington, D. G. 

